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Mach Industries

Software Engineer, Mission Autonomy

Huntington Beach, CA$130k–$230kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Mach Industries seeks a Software Engineer to develop mission-autonomy software for autonomous aerial defense platforms. You'll design decision-making and task-execution systems that translate mission objectives into reliable autonomous behavior, working across flight controls, perception, and ground systems.

What you'll do

  • Design and implement mission-planning, task-sequencing, and behavior-orchestration software in C++
  • Develop decision-making and contingency-management systems for vehicle health, sensor failures, and communications loss
  • Create Python tooling for simulation, test automation, and mission evaluation
  • Integrate mission software with flight controls, perception, payloads, communications, and ground-control systems
  • Build and analyze simulation scenarios, hardware-in-the-loop tests, and mission replays
  • Support multi-vehicle coordination and collaborative mission behaviors where applicable

What they're looking for

  • Modern C++ and Python
  • Linux production software development
  • Autonomous systems or robotics experience
  • Mission-autonomy capabilities (task planning, behavior trees, state machines, decision-making)
  • Software architecture and system-level debugging
  • Test automation and telemetry analysis
  • Hardware integration and flight-test support
  • Multi-disciplinary collaboration
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Mach Industries

Mach Industries is a defense technology startup developing autonomous defense systems and advanced propulsion technologies requiring precision manufacturing at scale. The company is hiring engineers across manufacturing (CNC tooling, automation), propulsion (controls), thermal management, and software to build mission-critical systems.

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Likely interview questions

  • Describe your experience implementing a mission-autonomy capability like task planning or behavior trees—what challenges did you face and how did you solve them?
  • Walk us through how you've designed software interfaces between high-level mission logic and low-level vehicle control systems.
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